Grew up in Wapping. A spokesman for the Levellers and a colonel in the New Model Army. Killed by a Royalist raiding party during the siege of Pontefract. The Levellers arranged for his funeral, 14 November 1648, to also be a mass demonstration for their cause.
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Thomas Rainsborough
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Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was buried in this churchyard on the 14th November 1648 a...
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Robert John Baggott
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1. Robert John Baggott was born on 10 April 1873, the second of the four children of Robert Henry Lancaster Ba...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
national service / military conscription
Military conscription has existed for two periods in modern times, related to WW1 and WW2 respectively: 1916 - 20 ("military service") and 1939 - 60 ("national service" or sometimes "war service")....
2 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
T. Sexton
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Gunner Leonard Edward Day
Leonard Edward Day was born on 25 June 1878, a son of James and Ellen Catherine Day. His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1878 in the Chelsea Registration District, Middlesex (now Greater...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Michele Latour
Our colleague Andrew Behan: reports a marriage between Michele Latour and a Patrick P. Folan in the first quarter of 1978 in Islington. Guardian, 1 July 1999: Workmen found a body at the site of t...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Rose and Crown pub
SE1, Colombo Street, 47, Rose and Crown pub
The painted plaster rose and crown are rather lovely but the numbers, especially the 7s, lack any elegance. We think the pub was rebuilt...
1 subject commemorated
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